I keep reading or hearing about this ‘War on Christianity/Christmas’
’War on Religion’ ‘Assault on Religious Rights’ posed by the Right Wing Nut
Jobs – or at a minimum the Teabagger ~ Patriots spewing their hate swill on Fox News.
Hate to break it to you but, there is no war. One may feel as though their ‘right to
religious freedom’ is under assault. I
cannot find evidence of this. What I do
find evidence of is; the privilege/power, and unfair advantage of the overtly
religious is being questioned by the populous.
There is a steady decline in the populations identified as attached to
religious institutions and an increase in those who identify themselves as
non-religious (atheist). The power
brokers of these religious institutions are starting to panic, and in their efforts
to maintain their flocks of sheep, they have fabricated a war.
The ensuing panic has led to a propaganda campaign by
those who still have an audience to play the victim card; ‘War is being waged
on our religious beliefs.’ Terms are
thrown out like, ‘patriot’, ‘Christian warriors’, ‘racially motivated (Islam)’
and ‘homosexual agenda’.
This is nothing more than a strong effort to consolidate
the base of voters, or sheep, to remain faithful and pressure the lawmakers to aid
alignment of their power over the perceived enemy (Atheists). From the pulpits come the threats to the
families to keep a tight rein on their potential wanderers. Both the Jehovah’s Witness and the Mormon
sects have documented systems to maintain this fear via processes dealing with apostates (control). Islam takes it to the extreme.
Fortunately the more intellectually involved and informed
can see that these propaganda efforts are in the long run; eventually
destructive. These efforts to control
from within, eliciting power struggles appears as dictatorial events within
almost all of these faiths. When people
can get past the fear and the understanding that departure from these faiths is
healthy, natural, and beneficial they step away.
Religion is destined for extinction. The function of religion to control and maintain
order is no longer necessary. People
hold onto the vestigial components for comfort and they serve no purposeful
function other than to calm the fear inspired by the sect leaders. This
war is of attrition the faithful are dying out and the children want no part of
the diseased relationships managed by the leaders of the faiths. I don’t seek out the youth to ‘turn them’
from their religion. They come to me
asking questions and I answer them with honesty, truth, and reason. They are refugees of an imaginary war.
My efforts to catch those who question their
participation in this co-dependent relationship with their religions takes the
form of starting a local Atheist group both on Facebook, and helping @FreeAtheism
with the Atheist Paper Route. Fliers handed out when they come to my door,
and left on the doorsteps of local churches.
Question Everything.
